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  1. Medication Tech Training

    Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Developmental Disabilities

    Hi Pam, MAP ceritification won't allow you to work in RI. I am a MAP instructor through the American Red Cross. It's a nice entry level step for direct support professionals but does "go against" a...

  2. Medication Tech Training

    Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Developmental Disabilities

    Hi Pam, Yes, you do have to be a CNA first. My niece did it wile she was waiting to get into CCRI's nursing program.

  3. Medication Tech Training

    Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Developmental Disabilities

    Hi Pam, My niece went through the Med Tech course at CCRI in Warwick. Its possible that registration is through the Dept of Health but the classes are held somewhere else. My understanding is that,...

  4. Medication Tech Training

    Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Developmental Disabilities

    Actually Pam, you can go right through CCRI for the Med Tech training. You have to be a CNA first. I don't believe though, that Med Techs are used in home care. Do you plan to do per diem's at a...

  5. Medication Tech Training

    Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Developmental Disabilities

    Thanksfr the info. We've closed all of our insititional type facilities and most of the MR/DD population live in the community in small group homes and their own aprtments and condos. A few are in...

  6. Medication Tech Training

    Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Developmental Disabilities

    You are absolutely correct---assessment cannot be delegated. In states that don't have nurses overseeing the medication admiistration process that creates a real problem. In my state I am responsibe...

  7. Umass Amherst Nursing program

    Wawaloam replied to HieuNgu1155's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    I'm sorry to offend you---you're right, it is pretty creepy but she disappeared from Amherst. I'm just trying to locate someone who may have known where her clinicals were pr why she would have been...

  8. Umass Amherst Nursing program

    Wawaloam replied to HieuNgu1155's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Is it possible that she was doing clinicals in Norwood, MA? Would she really be sent over two hours away from campus for a day of clinicals? I think she would've been a sophomore also with you. Do...

  9. Anybody applying to UMASS Amherst and getting their BSN

    Wawaloam replied to Kristina7101989's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Of those of you who go to or went to UMass, do you remember a young lady by the name of Maura Murray? She disappeard Feb 9, 2004 and I'm trying to figure out where she was doing clinicals. Is it...

  10. Medication Tech Training

    Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Developmental Disabilities

    we do g tubes, jtubes, etc., and as of march of this year, can delegate insulin injections if they are predosed. In Mass, only nurses can do

  11. Medication Tech Training

    Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Developmental Disabilities

    Interesting....In Mass, the MAP trained staff are certified on their own and there's no delegation by the RN. In RI, where I work primarily, it's ALL delegation with no standardized training in the...

  12. Medication Tech Training

    Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Developmental Disabilities

    do the nurses in your state delegate to the staff or are the staff licensed/certified on their own after taking the 30 hour class and passing the test with

  13. Umass Amherst Nursing program

    Wawaloam replied to HieuNgu1155's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Do you keep in touch with anyone else that may have known her? Her disappearance is still unsolved and many people are actively looking for

  14. Umass Amherst Nursing program

    Wawaloam replied to HieuNgu1155's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Did any of you that went to UMass Amherst ever meet Maura Murray while you were there? She was a nursing student at UMass Amherst at the time she

  15. Medication Tech Training

    Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Developmental Disabilities

    I work in both RI and Mass---two very different systems. In RI, the providers fought a longer standardized training and we are left with nothing formal--yet our Nurse Practice Act directly reflects...

  16. What is the scope of practice for LPN's in DD?

    Wawaloam replied to gertiemae91's topic in Developmental Disabilities

    I believe that your scope of practice in any given state depends on the scope of practice outlined in your nurse practice act/nursing regulations specific to your state. A speciality field cannot...

  17. need RN for online interaction with student nurse

    Wawaloam replied to rufus86's topic in General Nursing

    if you're still looking for someone, I'm always willing to help out a

  18. Medication Tech Training

    Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Developmental Disabilities

    OK--so get this! For several years we fought to get our Nurse Practice Act ammended to allow delegation to Direct Support Professional for medication admnistration etc. in group homes for the...

  19. Medication Tech Training

    Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Developmental Disabilities

    Hi Charlie, I have the training material that RI uses and what we are supposed to start using in January as well. It owuld be advisable to actually look at the ammendment that was passed to see if it...

  20. Medication Tech Training

    Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Developmental Disabilities

    Charlie, I can't imagine that the state would have passed this without actually having guidelines for what kind of training needed to be provided. Most states that have passed waivers to their Nurse...